Version 4.0 of the Mark II Artist's Viewfinder is now available on the App Store. This update adds support for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, introduces first-class iPad support and improves iOS 8 compatibility.

Buy the Mark II Artist's Viewfinder at a reduced price if you already purchased Viewfinder Pro, Cine or Basic editions. Upgrades are handled through the recently introduced feature of the App Store: App Bundles.

Just open the respective upgrade bundle and tap or click "Complete My Bundle" in the App Store. Upgrade prices are based on the amount you spent on the original purchase — the more you paid for the original app the less you are charged for the upgrade.

We are pleased to announce that DIRE Studio will be participating in Photokina 2014, the world's largest trade fair for the photographic and imaging industries, held in Cologne, Germany from September 16-21.

Meet us in person and try out our entire range of photographic software products! We will welcome all visitors to experience for themselves the innovation that underpins our apps.

ShutterCount, our app that displays the number of shutter actuations (the shutter count) of your Canon EOS digital camera, is now available for Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 users. It looks and works the same way the Mac version does, except that history logging is not (yet) available in the Windows version.

Pricing also matches the Mac version’s (€2.69 / $2.99 / £1.99), and the Windows version can be purchased directly from the app's page. You can activate each license on two computers simultaneously, and there’s no limit on the number of cameras you can read, nor the number of readings you can perform on a camera.

Version 1.2 of ShutterCount, our app that displays the number of shutter actuations (the shutter count) of your Canon EOS digital camera, adds history logging as well as support for additional cameras. Logs are stored in CSV format that can be imported into Apple’s Numbers or Microsoft Excel for further processing. You can also easily share your camera’s shutter count with your friends or a potential buyer (requires OS X 10.8 or later).

Partly rewritten and expanded to cover version 3.1 of the Mark II Artist’s Viewfinder and ALPA eFinder II, the 2nd Edition is recommended to both new users and veterans of the old app — as the Mark II brought lots of changes.

New main screen, wide converter support and simulated equipment setup (now called virtual cameras) being the three most important areas.

The handbook is a 14 MB PDF file, optimized for viewing on iPads. But because it’s a PDF, you can read it on any device, be it a tablet, a Mac or a PC, and in numerous PDF reader applications.